History of Petrzalka

Later, it became a recreation area famous for its gardens. The Hungarian name, Ligetfalva, (later Pozsonyligetfalu, literally "parkland village") originates from the 1860s. In 1866, the village had only 594 inhabitants and 103 houses.

1891 – Pozsonyligetfalu becomes permanently connected with Pressburg when the first railway bridge, 460 meters long, is built for the Pressburg-Csorna-Szombathely railway. Before this date only wooden bridges existed, but they were often damaged by frost and floods.

1910 – Of its 2947 inhabitants, 1997 speak German, 495 Hungarian, and 318 Slovak as their native language.

1919 - The village came under control of the Czechoslovak Legions on August 14. It was subsequently officially named Petržalka.

1919-1920 - The Paris Peace Conference assigned the area to Czechoslovakia. The aim was to create bridgehead for the newly created Czechoslovak state, for the controlling the Danube.

1920s - Petržalka is the largest village in Czechoslovakia. By the migration of Slovaks, the village loses its former ethnic German majority.

1938–1945 – Petržalka is annexed by Nazi Germany on 10 October 1938 on the basis of the Munich agreement. It is renamed Engerau, and the Starý most bridge becomes a border bridge between the First Slovak Republic and Nazi Germany. Several thousand inhabitants of Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian ethnicity have to stay in